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If something is emergent, it is only just beginning to be there — a new idea, a new kind of living thing, a new way of doing work. Scientists also talk about emergent properties: the whole can do something that the little pieces cannot do on their own, the way a flock of birds makes a shape that no single bird is planning.
If something is emergent如果某樣東西是 emergent（新興）的，it is only just beginning to be there就是才剛開始出現——a new idea, a new kind of living thing, a new way of doing work一個新想法、一種新的生物、一種新的做事方式。 Scientists also talk about emergent properties科學家也會講 emergent properties（湧現特性）：the whole can do something that the little pieces cannot do on their own整體能做到個別小部分自己做不到的事，the way a flock of birds makes a shape that no single bird is planning就像一群鳥排出一個形狀，卻沒有哪一隻鳥在規劃這個形狀。
In everyday English, emerging is the more common cousin (an emerging artist, an emerging market). Emergent sounds more academic.
In everyday English在日常英文裡，emerging is the more common cousinemerging 是比較常用的親戚字，(an emerging artist, an emerging market)（像 an emerging artist 新興藝術家、an emerging market 新興市場）。 Emergent sounds more academicEmergent 聽起來比較學術。
Though actually, doctors sometimes use emergent in a different way, to mean “this cannot wait,” because that use was built backwards from emergency. That is not the sense here.
Though actually不過其實，doctors sometimes use emergent in a different way醫生有時候會用不同的方式使用 emergent，to mean “this cannot wait,”意思是「這不能等」，because that use was built backwards from emergency因為這個用法是從 emergency（緊急狀況）反推回來造出來的。 That is not the sense here那不是這個詞條講的意思。
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
emergentadj/ɪˈmɜːd͡ʒənt/
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Emerging; coming into view or into existence; nascent; new.
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Arising unexpectedly, especially if also calling for immediate reaction.
- The chief precepts of their priests enjoin the strict keeping of their Lents, which are at least seven months in every year, and are not to be dispensed with on the most emergent necessity. Letter 43
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medicinesciencesConstituting an emergency.
- Therefore, patients with ulcerative colitis should ideally be treated before they become emergent cases with toxic megacolon or perforation of the colon.
- Bleeding manifestations in chronic DIC are more subacute than in acute DIC, but may become emergent as DIC progresses.
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biologybotanynatural-sciencesTaller than the surrounding vegetation.
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biologybotanynatural-sciencesHaving leaves and flowers above the water.
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video-gamesHaving gameplay that arises from its mechanics, rather than a linear storyline.
- In short, emergent games are ones that allow a huge range of possibilities and don't dictate a strict, linear flow of events. A strategy game is emergent because so many units can interact and have some effect on each other.
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epistemologyhuman-sciencesphilosophyThat arises at a higher level than that of its components and is not explainable by the behaviour of said components taken individually; having properties as a whole that are more complex than the properties contributed by each of the components individually.
- an emergent property
- A high-level phenomenon is strongly emergent with respect to a low-level domain when the high-level phenomenon arises from the low-level domain, but truths concerning that phenomenon are not deducible even in principle from truths in the low-level domain.[…] A high-level phenomenon is weakly emergent with respect to a low-level domain when the high-level phenomenon arises from the low-level domain, but truths concerning that phenomenon are unexpected given the principles governing the low-level domain.
emergentnoun/ɪˈmɜːd͡ʒənt/
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biologybotanynatural-sciencesA plant whose root system grows underwater, but whose shoot, leaves and flowers grow up and above the water.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。